John J Moores

Re "Putting Them to the Test," Jan. 27: John J. Moores, chairman of the University of California Board of Regents, is incorrect in placing SAT scores at the top of the list of criteria for college admission. The test cannot accurately predict how a student will do in a college environment. My own scholastic career bears this out. I graduated from high school with a 4.0 but with an SAT score of 1040. I made the dean's list every semester while at USC, earning a bachelor of arts degree along with two minors, in English and French.

Re "Putting Them to the Test," Jan. 27: John J. Moores, chairman of the University of California Board of Regents, is incorrect in placing SAT scores at the top of the list of criteria for college admission. The test cannot accurately predict how a student will do in a college environment. My own scholastic career bears this out. I graduated from high school with a 4.0 but with an SAT score of 1040. I made the dean's list every semester while at USC, earning a bachelor of arts degree along with two minors, in English and French.

Preparing to make his imprint on the University of California, Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday announced his first appointments to the UC Board of Regents: Paramount Pictures chief Sherry L. Lansing, San Diego Padres owner John J. Moores and Newport Beach businesswoman Judith L. Hopkinson. The appointments come a week before Davis will push his first initiative before the board: a proposal to admit the top 4% of students from each public high school in California.

Preparing to make his imprint on the University of California, Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday announced his first appointments to the UC Board of Regents: Paramount Pictures chief Sherry L. Lansing, San Diego Padres owner John J. Moores and Newport Beach businesswoman Judith L. Hopkinson. The appointments come a week before Davis will push his first initiative before the board: a proposal to admit the top 4% of students from each public high school in California.

Ex-Ambassador to Ireland John D. J. Moore, 77, a one-time city official who was ambassador to Ireland in the Nixon Administration and director emeritus of W. R. Grace & Co. He was with Grace, a diversified chemical company, from 1946 to 1969 and became corporate vice president, serving in Peru, Washington and New York. Then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon had Moore accompany him to South America in 1958 and to the Soviet Union in 1959.

The owner of the San Diego Padres baseball franchise was among those who hired Webster L. Hubbell after he resigned his high-ranking Justice Department position three years ago. Like others who hired Hubbell, John J. Moores, the Padres owner, acknowledged that he had demanded and received little work for the money he sent Hubbell, who had resigned amid allegations of impropriety.

Just days after Peregrine Systems Inc. Chairman John J. Moores and three board members announced their resignations, the San Diego software maker Friday reduced reported revenue for 1999 through 2001 by 38% because of accounting irregularities. Peregrine originally reported revenue of $1.34 billion. The company, which reduced its sales to $831 million, said it lost $11.36 a share in its fiscal year ended March 31, 2002, $13.32 in fiscal 2001 and $2.12 the previous year.

UCLA rejected more than 3,000 students with extremely high scores on the SAT entrance exam over the past two years and accepted more than 900 students with results that were far below the campus average. The newly released figures from UCLA mirror a similar disclosure earlier this month regarding admissions at UC Berkeley. The two campuses are the most selective of the eight undergraduate institutions in the University of California system.

With little likelihood of major increases in its state or federal funding, the University of California will face tough policy choices in the months and years ahead, including possible enrollment caps, steep hikes in student fees or a decline in the quality of academic programs, UC officials said Wednesday.

The owner of the San Diego Padres baseball franchise was among those who hired Webster L. Hubbell after he resigned his high-ranking Justice Department position three years ago. Like others who hired Hubbell, John J. Moores, the Padres owner, acknowledged that he had demanded and received little work for the money he sent Hubbell, who had resigned amid allegations of impropriety.

Ex-Ambassador to Ireland John D. J. Moore, 77, a one-time city official who was ambassador to Ireland in the Nixon Administration and director emeritus of W. R. Grace & Co. He was with Grace, a diversified chemical company, from 1946 to 1969 and became corporate vice president, serving in Peru, Washington and New York. Then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon had Moore accompany him to South America in 1958 and to the Soviet Union in 1959.

University of California leaders, responding to concerns about possible racial disparities in admissions practices, told UC regents earlier this week that a new analysis shows the university to be unbiased in its admissions and in compliance with federal and state law.

In the weeks before Peregrine Systems Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company's executives focused their time and tens of millions of dollars on deals with banks and lawyers that were aimed at protecting themselves rather than fixing the San Diego software firm, according to a recent court filing. The allegations, filed last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware week by a committee of unsecured creditors, provided a new look at the company's inner workings.